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As I reread this, I keep thinking about a specific quote in Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette:

“I don’t hate men. … I don’t even believe that women are better than men. I believe women are just as corruptible by power as men, because you know what, fellas, you don’t have a monopoly on the human condition, you arrogant fucks. But the story is as you have told it. Power belongs to you.”

On my third reread of this and I think it’s interesting that the first response to women becoming more physically powerful than men is to sever their access to men and children even if there is no prior record of the woman hurting or wanting to hurt men or children - just knowing that it is possible is enough. Why do we not take this approach with men now?

This was absolutely the best book I've read all year.